Heist at Monterey — three classic cars swiped from the auctions

Here we are in Monterey and Carmel and Pebble Beach for the annual auctions featuring out-of-sight prices on cars so rare that you only get to see them at places like this. Rolls-Royce, Delahaye, Ferrari – at one of the big auctions 10 days ago, a 1967 Ferrari 275 GTB convertible went for $27.5 million, but maybe it was because it was a pristine car and Ferrari only made 10 of them.

And you’d think there just has to be plenty of security, with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of precious iron sitting around – cars for the Pebble Beach concours, cars for the auctions, cars of the well-heeled spectators.

In the middle of all this expensive hoopla came the heist, right out of the blue: three classic Chevrolets were stolen from the auction lots. Two 1961 convertibles and a 1957 Bel Air. The California Highway Patrol reported that this kind of theft – collector cars at Monterey Motor Week – was nearly unheard of. As for the cars, they haven’t been heard from since. More about this here in Hemmings.